Oops, hacked!

MOST of us have fallen victim of online hacking. And whenever a person is affected, I am almost sure that nearly all come close to accidentally releasing gas from their stomachs.
Just to explain to those who don’t know what hacking is, it’s when your internet account is hijacked by anonymous people who gain access or control to your social media accounts. By so doing they use your account(s) to broadcast their own messages, usually malicious in nature, to other people.

In the past, it used to be the e-mail service provider — Yahoo that was mostly and easily attacked by hackers. Yahoo users were always crying foul, but now hacking has come into giant social media platforms like Facebook.

You know, I am an avid internet user, and sometimes I see hacked accounts on Facebook even before the owners of the accounts themselves discover, as they would not be connected at the time.

So, usually if the hacked person is a friend, whom I am connected to on WhatsApp, I usually send them a message informing them about their other accounts.
The Facebook hackers are really crazy. I don’t think they do it for money, but just to humiliate their target. Why they do that, I don’t think anybody has an answer to it.
On the other hand, the e-mail hackers are con artists. They hack people’s accounts in an effort to rob people in your mailing list of money.

For example if they seize your e-mail account, they will then start sending your friends e-mails saying things like you are stranded somewhere in Europe and need money quickly to get out of a dire emergency. They thus furnish you with a bank account number to send money and so forth.

There are many other tricks they use, but the one of being stranded is the most famous. Of course if you are foolish enough to fall for this, uyabe ungu va (gullible).
These guys are dangerous ngiyakutshela (I tell you).

But now these Facebook ones, they don’t tell fake stories once they take over your account. I have never come across any trying to solicit for money from their victims — all they do is flood your timeline with pornography and then tag your friends.

Imagine if you are a pastor in a respected church with a Facebook account that you use to tag your congregation to Bible teachings and stuff and then all of a sudden your flock starts receiving explicit pornography from you.

I think this is enough to send somebody into a stroke.
I know a few respected people who were stung like this on social media and said goodbye to it forever.

Now as I was saying, I sometimes spot hacked accounts and immediately WhatsApp the victims if they are my WhatsApp friends, but this other time I had a big laugh.
One of the persons I sent a message to on WhatsApp suddenly turned against me and accused me of doing the hacking.

You see being kind sometimes is dangerous. It is like defending a woman when she is being attacked by her lover and then later when she and the lover have reconciled, she turns against you and accuses you of trying to break up their relationship.
So what should I do? Should I warn my friends or just keep quiet and laugh at them when they are affected?

And we all don’t know how these hackers hack us, but some of us invite this onto ourselves.
Here is how. This has not been proved, but it is said if you click open most of these pornography sights on the internet, your account is immediately infected with malware or viruses, which the hackers then use to hack you.

Of course there are some who say they have been hacked without clicking anything open, but we will never know, as most of us visit these lascivious sites when we think no one is watching.

But hacking is not limited to being hacked on the internet only.
Some people hack into other people’s pockets and commandeer their contents. Some hack into other people’s mouths and use them to spread slander.
But the most exciting life hackers are those who do it over the hedge. Abanyeyayo phela. Basop wena!